Denna kandidatuppsats på 15 hp är skriven inom ämnet landsbygdsutveckling. Uppsatsen bygger på tre intervjuer och observationer med ägare till små livsmedelsbutiker i Uppsala. Butikerna säljer bland annat lokalproducerad mat, regional mat, mat från andra länder, kläder och annat smått och gott. Dessa små butiker har nischat in sig på olika områden och jag har undersökt hur det är att driva en sådan liten livsmedelsbutik i Uppsala. I analysen har jag försökt förstå varför vissa väljer att gå och handla i mindre butiker och vilka det är som gör det.

One special feature in the Swedish nature, mainly in the county of Uppland is one distinctive kind of dip, which can be distinguished from its fast and unaccounted drainage. These dips are called ?glupar? and can mainly be found in coarse-grained pebbled moraine under the highest shoreline (HK). During spring, and particularly when snowmelting occur, the wateramliptude fluctuates a lot until late summer or the beginning of fall comes; these dips are then often almost fully drained. During winter however, the waterlevel stands high.

Risk assessment of effects on the environment and health outcome caused by the iron industryLina LöfqvistIn Sweden you can find lots of contaminated areas, which can create problems for both humans and nature. To reduce the long-term contamination grades, Naturvårdsverket have created a report with regard to the contaminated sites. This builds on the ?Method for Inventories of Contaminated Sites? which is abbreviated MIFO. The aim of MIFO is to achieve better environmental planning in Sweden.

The purpose of this essay is to describe and analyze how three leisure centers in Örebrocounty are working with gender issues. Our research questions are:What is Machofabriken? How do leisure centers in Örebro county work with equal treatment?In which way do leisure centers in Örebro county work with Machofabriken?s material? Howcome the recreation centers in Örebro don?t use Machofabriken?s material to any greaterextent?We have focused on masculinity oriented gender projects at three leisure centers. We didsemi-structured interviews with three recreation leaders who have all been educated inMachofabriken. The interviews were analyzed based on terms that are central in genderequality and masculinity research.

AbstractObjective: To investigate the occurrence of and the risk factors for falls and to  investigate level of fall-related self-efficacy and health-related quality of life in people living in community living, 75 years or older within Uppsala and Västmanlands county. A further aim was to identify predictive risk factors for falls. Design: A cross-section study with a descriptive, comparative and correlative design based on a questionnaire was used. Participants: The participants were recruited from Uppsala and Västmanlands county. A random selection on 525 individuals was done, from a population based sample, in the detailed municipalities.

Telemedicine is the use of information and communication technology to provide clinical health care at a distance. This approach is usually adopted to bridge the distance in rural settings, but it is also a method to meet demographical and economical challenges. Västerbotten, a sparsely populated county with an ageing population, is in leading edge when it comes to telemedicine. The purpose of this report was to examine the diffusion and the inventory of telemedicine in the county council of Västerbotten from a geographical perspective. To gain a deeper understanding of diffusion and inventory of telemedicine, my purpose was also to examine these processes from an international and national perspective.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilka stadsförnyelsegrepp som använts i strävan efter en attraktiv stadskärna och vilka utmaningar som finns för att uppnå detta. Uppsala används som det empiriska exemplet. Ett särskilt fokus på hur gatuplansverksamheter i tretton kvarters förändring de senaste tolv åren kan kopplas till attraktivitet i stadskärnan har presenterats. Uppsatsens resultat grundar sig på dokumentgenomgångar, intervjustudier samt en kartläggning och behandling av data avseende gatuplansverksamheter i Uppsalas stadskärna. Intervjuerna har genomförts med aktörer som har intresse i utvecklingen av stadskärnan i Uppsala.

Idag mår våra stadsträd inte bra. Som uppsatsämne har jag därför valt att skriva om träd i stadsmiljö och problematiken runt detta. Vad vi kan göra för att förlänga livslängden hos de träd som finns i stadsmiljö idag? Och vid nyplanteringar - finns det arter som klarar sig bättre än andra? Jag kommer att ta upp de olika problem som finns såväl över som under mark och försöker finna arter som lämpar sig bättre som stadsträd och varför. Jag har valt att göra en övergripande beskrivning av hur läget ser ut idag för stadsträd. Därefter har jag genomfört en studie av stadsträden i Uppsala.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka gymnasieungdomars attityd till teater i allmänhet ochUppsala stadsteater i synnerhet, för att försöka få en bättre bild av hur marknadsföringen motungdomar skulle kunna utformas.Det teoretiska ramverket berör attityder, och marknadsföring mot ungdomar. De verktyg somanvänts är en intervju med en del av Uppsala Stadsteaters marknadsavdelning, enfokusgruppsintervju med nio gymnasieelever samt en enkätundersökning med 161gymnasieelever.Attityden till teater i allmänhet och Uppsala Stadsteater i synnerhet var relativt god blandUppsalas gymnasieungdomar. 58 procent av respondenterna har någon gång besökt UppsalaStadsteater. De som deltog i fokusgruppsintervjun ansåg att Uppsala Stadsteater bör ha tydligareinformation om vad pjäserna handlar om och synas mer.Uppsala Stadsteater bör satsa mer på marknadsföring som riktar sig direkt till ungdomar. Dettakan till exempel göras genom att öka informationen kring rabattkort och genom att göra trailersav pjäserna som går på teatern och presentera dem på Facebook och Youtube..

The first regulation concerning the protection of shores was introduced in 1950. The purpose of that regulation was to "secure the general publics condition of an outdoor life". The protection has been sharpened over the years and in 1975 a general protection of the shores was introduced, which meant that all land was protected within 100 meters from the shoreline. In 1994 a supplement was made with the purpose to "preserve good conditions for animal and plants on land and in water". The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did an inquiry of the shore protection regulations commissioned by the Government in 2001. The inquiry pointed out that there were big lacks in the exemption decisions.

This thesis discusses South Scandinavian cup marks in general, and cup marks in Kronobergs County in particular. The question is whether the cup mark phenomena can be viewed as an ordinary family-based cult for a kind of everyday use, or more likely as a community passage ritual. The thesis also suggests that cup marks were made by ritual participants in, or in the process of trying to reach, an altered state of consciousness..

The aim of this study was to investigate and analyze what is required for the environmental quality objective Good built environment to be fulfilled by 2020 in the Swedish county Jämtland. The focus of the study was to gain an understanding of the work that the local government does and further investigate the problems that the officials face with implement these questions in themunicipal planning.The study is based on semi structured interviews with officials in the municipalities of Jämtland county. General plan and programs for the municipality have been reviewed, based on how the plans highlights these issues linked to sustainability and Good built environment.The results of the study show that there are major problems with the formulations of the environmental quality goal in itself and its specifications. The environmental quality goal is formulated to suit the entire Sweden. But as it turns out in the analysis it does not work on the basis of the conditions inJämtland with sparsely populated areas and scattered dwellings.

GIS on the Internet is a rather new phenomenon, which has evolved from the need ofdistributed geographical data. It is also a powerful tool for presenting information on theInternet. This master thesis aim to create a web based GIS application with information onlime spreading and the situation concerning acidification in the county of Kronoberg, Sweden.The web based GIS application will be used by the county administrations in Kronoberg toinform the public and the municipal authorities of current counteracting acidification activity.This report includes documentation on acidifying processes and liming activities, which arepublicised together with the web based GIS application. The web based GIS application wascreated with ArcIMS, a new program in the ESRI family of GIS programs. The programincludes a guided structure, to development of everything from a map to a complete GISapplication, including mapservice and websites.

Denna uppsatts behandlar tre platser i Uppsala, Torbjörns torg, Kvarntorget ochDragarbrunnstorg. Platserna beskrivs utifrån ett landskapsarkitekturperspektiv medfokus på platsernas hårdgjorda och byggda delar. Undersökningsområdet ärdetaljernas betydelse för helhetsuppfattningen av en offentligplats. Uppsatsenbehandlar även vilka förändringar som skett beträffande utförande och användningav detaljer från 1940-talet till 2000-talet. De undersökta platserna representerar treårtionden 1940-talet, 1960-talet och 2000-talet..

AbstractDuring the year 2005, a more and newer models of trade as shopping malls has been established in Värmland. Trough media (Wermlands the newspaper, Tvärsnytt) we have been able to follow the development of trade establishments as happened in the county, for example the establishment of Olav Thons Shopping center in Töcksfors. The aim and issues as then arisen in this study is part's why economic activities as shopping center increases precisely in Värmland, part's factors that governs the premise ice ring of a shopping center, were Töcksfors shopping center is functioned as an example, part's if shopping centers is a part of Värmland's new tourist activity? Through depth interviews with the region manager Urban Svanberg on Swedish business communities, the centre manager Helene Rödseth on Töcksfors shopping centre and the county tourist manager Monica Karlsson on Värmland's tourist council, some cultural geographic premise ice teories has been showed. For example this study has shown that trade in Värmland has been given birth to new trades in the county..